Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Wednesday 20 February 2019

Vasily Belokurov

The Gaia Sausage - our Galaxy’s last major merger

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Wyn Evans

Sausage-Mania — more Mouth-watering Recipes

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 21 February 2019

Mark Ashdown - SKA

The computational challenge of the Square Kilometre Array

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Dimitri Veras (Warwick)

Transformative advances in post-main-sequence planetary system science

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)  [details]

Friday 22 February 2019

Beraldo e Silva (U Central Lancashire)

The discreteness-driven relaxation of collisionless gravitating systems

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Mihkel Kama

Title to be confirmed

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute  [details]

Thursday 28 February 2019

Stephanie Wright - The Hut Group

Title to be confirmed

Series: Data Intensive Science Seminar Series
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Laura Watkins (ESO)

Internal Kinematics of Galactic Globular Clusters with HST Proper Motions

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm)  [details]

Friday 01 March 2019

Ricardo Chavez (UNAM)

Compact HII galaxies

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building  [details]

Tuesday 05 March 2019

Ed Gillen (Cambridge)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Wednesday 20 February 2019

Marco Serone, SISSA

Perturbation Theory and Beyond in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Friday 22 February 2019

Adam Pound (Southampton)

Compact binaries and the gravitational self-force

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]

Monday 25 February 2019

Dipak Munshi (UCL)

Extracting cosmological information from weak lensing bispectrum

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Simon Jeffery, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium

Stellar pulsation: excitation, diagnosis and seismology

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Wednesday 27 February 2019

Ben Allanach, DAMTP

Z' Explanations of Neutral Current B Anomalies

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Friday 01 March 2019

Katy Clough (Oxford)

Collisions of axion stars with black holes and neutron stars

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]

Monday 04 March 2019

Alexander van Engelen (CITA Toronto)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Pablo Benítez-Llambay (NBI Copenhagen)

Unveiling the role of dust on planetary migration

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Wednesday 06 March 2019

Tanmay Vachaspati, Arizona State University

TBA

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Friday 08 March 2019

Claude Warnick (University of Cambridge)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]